We feel honored to be guests on this beautiful, healing land located on 28 acres of fields and forest in so-called South Arlington, VT; home to fauna and flora such as deer, black bear, coyote, red fox, rabbit, possum, porcupine, frog, toad, turkey, brook trout, red efts, salamander, painted turtles, 389 species of bird that visit or stay throughout the year, fungi, lichen, native plants and trees. We grow herbs, flowers, and food on a small hand-crafted scale to sustain and support land-based learning, healing, and connection as well as to nourish the community who gathers here.
This is Abenaki land.
Getting here: By car, you must come through Cambridge, NY. Take Ash Grove Road to 1843 Black Hole Hollow Road, S. Arlington Vermont.
We acknowledge that these were the primary tribal lands of the Algonkian speaking Abenaki [Abenqui], one of the five nations in the ‘Wabanaki Confederacy’ ‘People of the Dawn’ or ‘Easterner’. This region was also occupied by the Onkwehonwe, or the Original People, which included the Mahican, the Huron, and the Mohawk. The original stewards of this land did not view it as a possession, but rather believed they belonged to the land.
Embedded and alive in the memory of this land are the generations of indigenous ancestors who stewarded this region for nearly two thousand years, as is a history of violence, genocide, displacement, migration, and settlement. To care for this land as white settler descendants, therefore, is to engage in the complexities and tensions of oppression and privilege that frame what it means to connect with this land at this moment in time.
We are open to and actively learning about steps toward dialogue with local First Nation organizations to work toward healing and reparations. We encourage you to seek out and connect with the local indigenous communities in your region. Here is a map to assist you in seeking out and connecting with local indigenous communities in your region as you work words acknowledging the tribes and true histories of the lands you occupy.
Nulhegan Abenaki Tribal Website
BLACK HOLE HOLLOW 